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Citadel’s Defenses Breached

06

Jun

2013

On June 5, Microsoft announced that they had worked together with members of the financial services industry and the FBI to disrupt the operations of a banking Trojan horse program called Citadel. The takedown operation resulted in over 1,000 Citadel botnets being taken offline.Citadel is a banking Trojan that has been in existence since 2011. […]

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Waledac Reloaded: Trojan.Rloader.B

05

Jun

2013

Recently, we blogged about systems compromised by W32.Virut that were observed downloading W32.Waledac.D (Kelihos). Symantec has followed the Waledac evolution for a number of years and have observed the botnet showing considerable resilience against take-down efforts conducted in the past. Waledac is traditionally known as a spamming botnet which has been observed to send up […]

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Bitcoins Still a Hot Security Topic

05

Jun

2013

Interest in Bitcoin-the decentralized digital currency-is definitely growing. But as with anything established, it also sparks the interest of scammers. We have seen a few Trojans stealing Bitcoin wallets over the last few years. Also, Trojans installing Bitcoin miners are not that exotic anymore. A case from last week shows how far interest has grown […]

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